Assistant professor at the Institute for Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria), writer and documentary director. He holds a PhD in political science and in sociology. His research and writing focuses on social transformation, migration and racism, self administration, workers control and extensive case studies in Latin America. He serves as Associate Editor for WorkingUSA and for Cuadernos de Marte (University of Buenos Aires). He published several books, essays and documentaries about social movements, privatization of military services, migration and racism, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia and Venezuela. Among them "Das Unternehmen Krieg" (Assoziation, A 2002), a book about privatization of military services, translated and published in Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, France, Indonesia, Italy, Spain and Venezuela. More information: www.azzellini.net.He recently published together with Marina Sitrin "Occupying Language" (Occupied Media Pamphlet, 2012) and "They Can't Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy" (Verso, 2014), "Partizipation, Arbeiterkontrolle und die Commune (VSA, 2010)", the documentary "Comuna under construction" (2010) about local self government in Venezuela, and together with Immanuel Ness "Ours to Master and to Own. Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present" (Haymarket, 2011). He served as Associate Editor for the The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and was primary editor for Latin America, the Spanish Caribbean, and the new left in Italy.